The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society
by Lovell, Mary S
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1681775158
- ISBN 13
- 9781681775159
- Seller
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About This Item
New York and London: Pegasus Books, 2017. viii, 434 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon near Cannes, covering a span of forty years, from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960." - Publisher. CONTENTS: In the beginning . . . Jessie Dermot; Miss Maxine Elliott; Hartsbourne; Maxine's war; Courtesans and Assignations; Winston; A new King; Final fling; The lights go out over Europe; War on the Riviera; Return of peace; Prince Aly Khan; Rita Hayworth; "A marriage has been arranged"; Wedding of the century; Marital troubles; Changes; Causes and effects; End of an era; Epilogue; Postscript.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124224
- Title
- The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society
- Author
- Lovell, Mary S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1681775158
- ISBN 13
- 9781681775159
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 2017
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945; European / 8. Modern, 1900-1945; European / French;
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